Interviews with twenty well-established American actors including Olympia Dukakis and James Earl Jones. A mosaic of American stage experience from the Fifies to the Nineties, covering the advent of television, the flourishing of the resident theatre movement, the development of nontraditional casting and the rise of theatres dedicated to fostering and exploring the heritage of artists of specific ethnicity, gender or disability.

A highly readable, informative book about the professional lives of some of the foremost actresses working in theatre and film today.

Audition monologues selected from plays first published in American theatre magazine since 1985.

PERFORMANCE OF THE CENTURY: 100 YEARS OF ACTORS EQUITY ASSOCIATION AND THE RISE OF PROF